, 1887-07-26
A SAD SEQUEL.
Two Innocent Men Shot by Over
Jealous Officials.
Pulling and Cooley, LabOrers, Mis-
taken for Linn and ZONES.
Walters, the Thug, and Shooter
Roam Captured at Horse Creek.

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deputy sheriffs of Albany county, ap-
preached them on horseback and ordered
the footmen to throw up their hands,
supposing they were two of the prisoners
who recently escaped from LARAMIE City.
The men did as ordered, when the officers
dismounted and aiming their rifles at the
unarmed men started toward them. Pull
ling and Cooley, thinking they were about
to be murdered, broke and ran, but we're
followed by a shower of bullets. Both
were seriously, if not MORALLY, wounded.
Pulling was shot in the back and the ball
was extracted from Just underneath the
cuticle near the navel. Cooley's wound
is in the leg below the thigh. The bone
is shattered and the limb will probably
have to be amputated. Both men are
now lying in the county hospital and were
reported as resting easily at a late hour last
night. A special consisting of an engine
and caboose reached here at $50 yester-
day afternoon. The passengers were the
two wounded men and two of their
friends, Sheriff Sterling OF Albany county
and County Commissioner John Hunton.
Sheriff Sterling was much affected over
the incident, and could scarcely find words
to express his feelings when interviewed
by a LEADER representative. His side
of the story is substantially as follows:
Il left Horse creek bound for the Chug
early in the morning. feeling in pretty
good spirits, for Alex. Brebner, my dep
uty, assisted by Mike Rice and another
special had captured Roam, the colored
shooter, and Walters, the tramp who at
tempted to murder a companion in Lara
mic last March, and had started for home
with them. They were caught at Nc
Laughlin's ranch, thirty three miles from
Cheyenne, after asking for something to
eat, and were in custody when | arrived.
Walters had a six shooter, but made no
resistance, while the darkey was unarmed.
The former told me that he had been
hiding in hat vicinity for several days,
and had often been within a few yards of
men looking for them. Both told me a
pretty straight story as to the whereabouts
of Linn, the Fetterman murderer, and
Jones, the horse thief, the two remaining
fugitives, and the men whom | most de-
sired to ~recapture, and after seeing Roam
and Walters on the road to their old
quarters | started out after the other two
birds, and was pretty confident of caging
them before night, as | was sure they
were in that section, having heard of them
Sunday morning. The shooting
at the Chug occurred fully thirty
minutes before l reached there,
and as l drove up to the station Link and
Baker came toward me shouting, We've
got them, Scotty; we've got Linn and
Jones; but we had to wing them l
replied, 1 hope you have the right men,
boys This thought never seemed to
have entered their heads, and they were
the most crestfallen pair a man ever
beheld when | said, You've shot two
innocent men, boys They we're terribly
broken up and very sorry and left, saying
that they would come to Cheyenne and
give themselves up. And l believe they
will. Both are young men of good repu-
tations and own ranches near Laramie
City. No one can be more panied over
this occurrence than myself. The men
would not have been shot had l been
present.
Mr.. j ohm Hunton did not see or hear
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wounded men shortly after they fell,
caused them to be brought to the station
in separate wagons, and secured brandy
and bandages for their use. He tele-
graphed to Superintendent Wurtele, ask
ing what arrangements could be made for
the rapid removal of the men to the
hospital here, and that official generously
instructed the agent at the Chug to fur
nish Mr.. Hunton an engine and what.
ever cars he might need and to sidetrack
all other trains for the special.
The4run from Chug here was made in
two hours and thirty minutes. The I'M
fortunate men were lying on comfortable
touches and bore the trip remarkably
well. Immediately upon their arrival
in Cheyenne they were taken to the
county hospital and DR.. Marston called to
make an examination of their injuries,
which he did with the results stated
above.
Pulling and Cooley retained conscious
ness and talked quite freely. The former
said he was from England and had a
brother in Omaha. Both are young and
unmarried. Cooley is an Irishman whose
home is in Wisconsin. They came here
just two weeks ago to work at ''surfacing"
on the Cheyenne & Northern, and were
laid off Saturday. The men were wait.
ing at Chug to board the southbound
train and return east.
Pulling said: We were walking over
the hills hunting rabbits and moss agates.
We had killed a couple of rabbits with
stones the day before. Those officers
were about fifty yards away. 1t seemed
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